Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter argues in a short YouTube segment that many orthopedic joint replacements in the U.S. are performed prematurely (about 30%), driven by an emphasis on quick surgical throughput. He warns that unnecessary surgeries lead to serious downstream harms including addiction, infections/complications, and depression.
About 30%.
It's actually not a shortcut when you do surgery. It's actually a long cut. Here's the problem with orthopedic surgery. About 30% of joint replacements in the United States are done prematurely. We're so focused on getting a patient into surgery and making that surgery quick and easy that we're having a lot of people do surgery that don't necessarily need it. That leads to its own problems. Like. Right. Addictions, rampant infections and complications can be a super problem. Depression and the consequences of having surgeries are pretty major.
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